Ciciya
MemberOvomorphMay 10, 2017Just watched the movie. It seems like a lot of people get upset that "David created the aliens". Just my 2 cents, I don't think David created the aliens we know from original series. In the movie and what we see from prologue clip, I think the Aliens that we know from the original movies are just the "perfect organisms" by themselves. What I meant by this is that David was simply trying to create the "perfect organism" by using the black goo mutagent and it just turned out that this "perfect organism" resembles the aliens from the original series. So in a way, David was simply doing trials/errors to sequence DNAs for perfect lifeform which just happens to be the xenomorphs' DNAs of evolutionary pinnacle. Think of when you try to solve the math equation in order to find the value of unknown variables. You can do it a thousand ways but the value would still be the same. Amd what David was doing was just one of the ways to solving that equation. While the xenomorphs from original series came to existence through different methods. Also, as far as we know, the movie didnt actually officially confirmed that David created the original xenomorphs. It's just extrapolation.
Observation. In David's lab, we saw a lot of sketching/carcasses of insects like beetles and centipedes. I don't think these were native species but byproducts after David's quest of finding the perfect lifeform. I think it is a supporting evident that David was DNA sequencing and creating species from the ground up and he got closer to the end results which happen to be whatever DNA sequence that looks like Xenomorphs. Now, if you can remember the xenoesque wall carvings in prometheus, it is possible that the Aliens as we know it already existed naturally and the engineers derived the black goo from them to create biological weapons (hypothesis given by someone who replied to my opinion in another thread).
With all these, the movie would now make more sense and doesnt break the original lore that the xeno might be very ancient species. The question is what is in between A:C and Alien. Hopefully we will find answer in A:awakening. Although, even if we get the explanation for how the space jockey and derelict ship ended up in Alien, I dont think the arc about David will be directly sequential to that incident.
Othet observation. It seems to me that despite his seemingly evil intenjtion, David might not be entirely vile from the beginning. At the beginning, we saw that the engineer ship crashed into the mountain. This was also pointed out by the landing crew. So, Shaw might actually died in the crash. Perhaps, after releasing the mutagent, the ship was getting attacked and it crashed?
Ciciya,
It has been confirmed by Ridley in one of Ingeinero's threads at 3:31 during a Ridley interview. He states that David created "him" while giving a head nod over to the Alien.
I'm gonna slide back into My universe, this whole thing of David creating The Alien (and the creature from the 1st movie being indicated) is giving me one helluva headache in trying to figure it out in a way that doesn't come off as just plain horrible and tritely trope-ish.
If it does turn out that David IS the creator of The Alien as seen in the first movie...I dunno, I don't think I can accept that with any line of logic as it just kills the whole mystique and rich darkness associated with it.
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Well, I have to admit, at risk of a possible spoiler, that how I envision it is an important element in the story I'll be releasing in 2 to 3 weeks.
Suffice to say, David doesn't enter into it at all. ;)
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Agreed, and well said!!
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